The one who works with the organs of work, with senses and mind, but without attachments and selfishness, he is Karma-yogi and is superior to any other yogi.
This chapter is dedicated to Karma – Yoga. In Ch. II, its introduction is already made. To do one’s own duty without the hurdle of sin and merit, with Right understanding, with the feeling of sam- buddhi and samatva - buddhi - Equality for all the beings, is the subject matter in chief, of the Gita. In this chapter the Gita urges every one to do his legitimate duty with Right understanding. Arjuna – (Curiosity) asks, “When buddhi is superior to Karma, then why to do the savage act of fighting the war”? He was a bit confused.
Because of misunderstanding, his intelligence was bewildered, and the teacher is urged to tell the Highest Good. 1, 2.
The teacher removes the confusion. He says that since long before, twofold ways of life were being taught,(i)that of knowledge for the men of contemplation and (ii) that of work for the men of Action;(Karma-Yogi) 3
Path of Renunciation - Sannyas is worthless
Na karmanam anarambhan : Merely by abstention of work, no one can
Naishkarmyam purusho asnute: attain Liberation from binding of work.
Na cha sanyasanad eva : The Path of Renunciation brings them neither
Siddhim samadhi gacchati : the Purity nor perfection nor Peace. 4
Sankhya FAITH was, - that the soul is bonded by the bonds of action of past births and of this birth too. To be free from those bonding was to attain mokshya-Liberation. Path to them was to renounce-work and world. And be sloth and idle.
“What is demanded (by the Gita) is not the Renunciation of work but Renunciation of selfish desire.” ( RK ) . No one can remain without doing work even for a moment. Naishkarmya- does not mean not to do any work. It means to work with right understanding (dnyan).To work alone is the means to attain knowledge. Right action with right knowledge will never lead us to slavery of total dependence (on God or fate – break of Karma- bandhas-bonds of action).
Karyate hy avasah karma : we must work ( and not be idle and sloth )
Sarvah Prakritijair gunaih : as is the provision made by the Nature .5.
We cannot escape from action till we are living. (If liberation is attained by not doing any work, the first claimants of moksha of their imagination, will be the rocks and stones.
IGNORANCE – Released soul ceases to work; this concept of Dualists is declared as ignorance and is rejected by the Gita. No life can be sustained even for a moment, without work. Living, thinking or even breathing is action.
Hypocrisy of Austerity - Sannyas
One who restrains the organs of action, yet his mind broods over the objects of senses, (Restraint should be on desires or on performing of acts to get rewards).
Indriyarthan vimudhatma mythyachar ucchyate: he is deluded and is declared a hypocrite – a man of false and fraudulent behavior and conduct. ….6
Yas tv indriyani manasa– Superior of all is to control senses by mind and never
Niyamya arabhate arjuna- by force-Indriya daman- Tyranny (torture the body).
Karmendriyaih karmayogam- Karma Yogi is he who works with organs of work and with right understanding and with true spirit of detachment from the s
Asaktah vishishyate– selfish desire and imageries of God or Soul or Karmabandhas. 7
Integrity, composed attitude, innocence, originality and initiative were completely lost. The Gita wishes to bring recovery from them. Triumph over rigidity and helplessness also can be attained by the use of Buddhi- intelligence alone and in no other way. The Path of Renunciation- sannyas of dualists is considered far- far inferior to Karmayoga, by the Gita.
Nityam kuru karma tvam – Do your allotted work always, because
Karma jayo hy akarmanah: action is always better than inaction.
Sharira yatra api cha te - Will it be possible to maintain life by inaction
Na prasidhyed akarmanah-of sannyas-Austerity that is highly talked of ? 8
Ritualism and Yadnyas are Evils
Yadnyarthat karmano anyatra loko’yam karmabandhanah: according to the Vedic Faith, except their Yadnyas every other work was binding.
Tadartham karma kaunteya muktasangh samachara- In contras the Gita advocates, to do the work- duty with the spirit of sacrifice being free from all and every attachments ( of Imageries ). …9
(The Vedics had faith in God. The Sankhyas disbelieved God, and rejected the concept of the Vedics; must be with intention to bring an end to the yadnyas. Though the Vedics had accepted the Sankhya concept of soul, binding of work and renunciation yet retained the practice of yadnyas.Vedic Faith believed that the God created the living world, along with sacrifice- Yadnyas, assuring that every desire will be fulfilled by the spirit of sacrifice.10 (The Gita rejects this concept).
Cooperation with all to achieve Supreme Good is necessary.
Parasperam bhavayantah shreyah parama vapsyata : Even the God had asked the yadniks- the Vedics to live by mutual cooperation. (Why then all others were treated as low and were debarred from knowing or performing the religion. Why the discrimination and untouchability were practiced by those Vedics as their religion?)
They, the masses were to bring the gifts to the custodians (material that was required to perform Fire- Worship, like wood, food-grains, ghee and oil or animals etc). The spirit of today is to see the God in the service of down trodden. So also must have been the case then as well. Those masses who created and brought the gifts necessary for performance of sacrifices. Not to give them any thing in return but enjoy themselves, they are verily the thieves, the Gita proclaims. 11., 12.
In the primitive age, man learnt the use of fire and knew the art of cooking. Few- old and feeble but clean people from the tribe must have been entrusted the work of cooking. Young and strong people brought hunt. That was cooked in the centre of the in habitat. Cooked Food was to be served to all inhabitants by the cooks. The whole tribe enjoyed the food with merry making. This became a tradition and in the course of time, it must have turned into Fire- Worship in the form of yadnyas. (Sacrifice should mean the spirit of service and not the indiscriminate burning of material in the fire at the cost of masses who work and produce. But the masses were exploited and kept hungry and naked in the name of religion for generations after generations.
The mandate of the Gita: Who performed the sacrifice should eat only the remains after serving all to their satisfaction. This was said to be the release from sin. But the very cooks started to consume every bit of food by themselves keeping all others hungry (exploitation).It had become the practice. The Gita proclaims it as wickedness, amounting to eat sin only. 13
In the Primitive age man did not know the art of cultivation. On hunting and on fruits and roots he maintained himself. He used his buddhi – intelligence and knew the art of agriculture. He started making use of rains, worked hard and grew food. On which all the beings could survive. Man learnt the art of cooking by making use of fire. Fire could cook food and made it tasty. It also gave warmth and light. It could protect the tribe from wild animals too. As such if Fire was held sacred, and worshiped no wonder.
Yadnyat bhavati parjanya- Yadnya brings the rains was the Faith before. (Distortion of Reality is very evident). In contrast the Gita proclaims reality that
Yadnyah Karma Samudbhavah: Sacrifice – yadnya is born of work. By working with spirit of service alone, (must be the spirit of cooperation), people could till the land and produce food grains making use of rains. How merely by burning of woods and the produce indiscriminately, or sacrificing animals in the yadnyas, rains can be brought? To say so is unscientific. It is ignorance. It is to corrupt the reality. It is buddhibheda.14
Karma brahmodbhavan viddhi,- Brahma to the Gita is not God of the Vedics. It is Nature – Prakriti which brought Rains.
Aksharsamudbhavan- imperishable to the Gita is Knowledge that is the gift of nature to the beings which made the primitive man to till the land making use of rains. To the Vedics Brahma is created by the God. Tasmat sarvagatam brahma – Therefore they saw God every where. Shruti viprati panna- the Vedas were considered as God made. The sole cause of bewilderment was the Vedas (that means Faith in God), the Gita declares.
Nityam yadnye pratisthitam- the Vedics ever centered around the yadnyas only, in the name of God. According to the Gita it is nothing but ignorance.15
To perform sacrifices–yadnyas alone had become Karma-Action-duty to the Vedics. Sacrificing spirit behind the yadnyas was lost and corrupt practices to pacify the selfish ends started. .
Yadnyas had become the media to please Gods and deities to get Divne reward of their desire. Bramha was limited by them to the material that was burnt in the fire worship, the giver and the receiver of the material. The goal and object of sacrifice was to attain Brahma. If yadnyas are not performed the world will fall into ruin was their Faith. It was the delusion of the Vedics out of ignorance, declares the Gita. BRAHMA is Prakriti – Nature and not God. (XIV.3 & 4 ).
Su Darshan Chakra
( Wheel of Right vision that shall bring change for better)
Evam prakriti chakram na anuvartayati ‘ha yah-
aghyayur indriyaramo mogham partha sa jivati : Those who do not help to keep the wheel of progress (by making use of Buddhi) in motion by creativity but indulge in cruel deeds and sensual pleasures, are of evil nature. Their lives are in vain.16
In the primitive age by the Initiators of culture, man was taught agriculture- to work and grow. But the Brahmavadis - Vedics, - indulged in burning of the material produced, in yadnyas-to get sensual pleasures and kam- pacify passions. They are declared as evil by nature. The Gita has condemned the Vedic Faith and their ritualism and Yadnyas as Evil. What does the Gita say for the Atman vadis and their path of renunciation - Sannyas, let us see:
Selfish ends - (Atma- kalyan)
Yas tv atmaratir eva syad- Delight of Atman-vadis is in Self alone. They are contented in their own selves. They feel, for them, there exists no work that needs to be done. They feel as if they are freed from sense of duty……… 17.
Nai eva tasya kritena artho, na akritene iha kaschan: They feel no interest in this world, and have nothing to gain by doing any work They further feel that
Na cha asya sarva bhuteshu kaschid arthavyapshrayah: they are not dependent on any beings and feel no interest or concern with other beings 18.
Work for World Solidarity of World
(Message of the Gita to the Vediks – (Yadniks) & Ascetics.)
Those who think that they are liberated, for them the Message of the Gita is,
Tasmad asktah satatam karyam karma samachar
Asakto hy acharan karma param apnoti purushah …….19
Wise people are only they who work and perform legitimate duty without any attachment and selfish desire. Param- Supreme status - Purity and Perfection can be attained by them and they only maintain the solidarity of the world.
Karmanai eva hi samshuddhi asthita Janakadayah–Janak and others, the Great men could attain Purity and perfection only because they worked with sense of duty and also because they constantly worked with the Spirit of service
Loka sangraham eva api sampshyamkartum arhasi- to the multitudes and for Lokasangrah – maintenance of the world solidarity. To stop moral degradation and physical misery and sufferings, all must work. Loka sangrah- does not mean only to come together. It should mean to preserve the whole nature - Prakriti with its flora and fauna, by complete stopping of erosion by indiscriminate burning of woods and material, sacrificing animals and even human beings in the name of religion. The aim of every religion should be to spiritualize society, to establish brotherhood on earth. Without unity and cooperation the world will perish. All others follow whatever great men do. The world follows the standard set by the great men. 2o, 21.
Inertia (not to work) if is followed by all others, no one shall be able to save the world from sinking. To make the life of common man dignified and descent, religious ethics should infuse spirit to work and control action rather than make them sit idle and sloth and be parasites. Great men are path- makers; they show the Light to walk on right path.
Na me partha asti kartavyam Trishu lokeshu kimchana- Knowledge (ME) - the Supreme has nothing to do in the three worlds nor He has to obtain anything.
Na anavaptam avaptavyam cha eva cha karmani : yet He is engaged in work all the time to show the light. If the teacher is God, and he does not work, the world shall follow His Path…. 23.
If God is there, will He ask to cease the work? If He does so, and the people follow Him world is certain to fall in ruin 24.
Unlearned are attached to their work. So the learned also should act but without any attachment. The aim should be desire to maintain solidarity of the world order. Desire must be there but it should be for doing good work with right understanding to maintain the order of the world.” It is not surprising that the religion is full of superstition, dark and primitive” (Dr. R.K) . 25
Ignorance of the Learned
The Dnyan Yogis – Sankhyas and the learned Vedics not only indulged in inaction but also unsettled the minds of multitudes. The Gita tells them, not to
Na buddhibhedam janayed adnyanam karmasnginam : unsettle the minds of those illiterate and ignorant masses who are attached to their work. Rather
Josayet sarva karmani vidvan yukta samacharan : the (so called) men of wisdom (the custodians) should become Karma- Yogis and do every work along with all others shoulder to shoulder, making use of their knowledge and wisdom. They must try to infuse right spirit amongst common illiterate masses to work rather than call them and their work low. Spirit of religion should be to love them all instead of discriminating them as untouchables and denying them the knowledge. The custodians also must work with the right sense of duty and with the spirit of sacrifice. Loka- Sangraha -is to educate all and not to deny them the right to know.
The Brahma or Vedic god is not the doer
Prakriteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sravashah –Vedic concept is that that every work is done by the modes of nature- the three Gunas. Those egoists but
Ahankar vimudhatma kartatah aham iti manyate.-are fools and bewildered people who say that the God only, is the Doer. 27
According to the Gita, the man of wisdom is he who understands that the Modes of nature (Three Gunas) of the Vedics or the Karmabandhas – bonds of action of the Sankhyas, are very separate from him. He is unconcerned with both. 28
Prkriter guna sammudhah sajjante guna karmasu : They have gone mudhas –fools and mad. They are misled by three gunas. They indulge in Rituals and yadnyas as their only work. The Sankhyas, to bring about an end to the yadnyas denied the very concept of God of the Vedics. Because of their concept of bonding of soul with action, they go in inaction; yet they call themselves as sarvadnyas that they know whole.
Tan akrisnavido mandan krisnavin na vichalayet- The Gita declares that they know very little. They are ignorant. The Gita warns them not to unsettle the minds of illiterate multitudes who work & create. 29
Unlearned are attached to their work. So the learned also should act but without any attachment. The aim should be desire to maintain solidarity of the world order. Desire must be there but it should be for doing good work with right understanding to maintain the order of the world.” It is not surprising that the religion is full of superstition, dark and primitive” (Dr. R.K) . 25
Ignorance of the Learned
The Dnyan Yogis – Sankhyas and the learned Vedics not only indulged in inaction but also unsettled the minds of multitudes. The Gita tells them, not to
Na buddhibhedam janayed adnyanam karmasnginam : unsettle the minds of those illiterate and ignorant masses who are attached to their work. Rather
Josayet sarva karmani vidvan yukta samacharan : the (so called) men of wisdom (the custodians) should become Karma- Yogis and do every work along with all others shoulder to shoulder, making use of their knowledge and wisdom. They must try to infuse right spirit amongst common illiterate masses to work rather than call them and their work low. Spirit of religion should be to love them all instead of discriminating them as untouchables and denying them the knowledge. The custodians also must work with the right sense of duty and with the spirit of sacrifice. Loka- Sangraha -is to educate all and not to deny them the right to know.
The Brahma or Vedic god is not the doer
Prakriteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sravashah –Vedic concept is that that every work is done by the modes of nature- the three Gunas. Those egoists but
Ahankar vimudhatma kartatah aham iti manyate.-are fools and bewildered people who say that the God only, is the Doer. 27
According to the Gita, the man of wisdom is he who understands that the Modes of nature (Three Gunas) of the Vedics or the Karmabandhas – bonds of action of the Sankhyas, are very separate from him. He is unconcerned with both. 28
Prkriter guna sammudhah sajjante guna karmasu : They have gone mudhas –fools and mad. They are misled by three gunas. They indulge in Rituals and yadnyas as their only work. The Sankhyas, to bring about an end to the yadnyas denied the very concept of God of the Vedics. Because of their concept of bonding of soul with action, they go in inaction; yet they call themselves as sarvadnyas that they know whole.
Tan akrisnavido mandan krisnavin na vichalayet- The Gita declares that they know very little. They are ignorant. The Gita warns them not to unsettle the minds of illiterate multitudes who work & create. 29
Realization should be that the Supreme is merely a detached witness. He is impartial, noble and calm. He shows us the Light in which we can see cleaner and clearer. No work can bind us. We should try to attain perfection from imperfection, fight against sufferings and sorrows, overcome the difficulties individually and also with cooperation of all and work for the wellbeing of all. ‘False self’ is the Ego and natural instincts (3 gunas). “ ATMAN- is the True Self. The Gita does not support the dualism of Sankhya of Purush and Prakriti- as immortal soul and the mortal body as two entities of a being.( Dualism).
Mayi sarvani karmani Sannyasya adhyatma chetasa
Nirasir nirmamo bhutva yudhyasva vigatjvrah …… 30
Yudhyasya Vigatjvarah–Cast away the klaibyam - unmanliness and weak heartedness- the gifts of dualistic Faiths of past that had made - brave warriors like Arjuna to shun from war and run after salvation.
Sannyasya adhyatmachetasa : they were possessed by the thought of Sannyas – Renunciation of work and world in the name of Adhyatma – spiritualism.
Nirasir nirmamo bhutva : Be free from desire and egoism, Fight – do your duty. The Gita asks every one to do the duty but without desire and attachment of imageries of soul and Karma bandhas - bonds of work- or lust of heaven or hell.
Ye me matam nityam : Those who act according to the preaching of the Gita, anutishthanti manavah :and behave like human beings (use Buddhi and act);
Shradhavanto anasuyanto: with firm faith in the Lighted path of Knowledge,
Muchyante te api karmabhi: they only will be freed from the bonds of work. 31
(The Gita rejects the paths of renunciation of the Sankhyas and also Ritualism and yadnyas- karmakandas of the Vedics). Liberation can be possible only by doing work – our duty with Right understanding - intelligence. If they do not get freed from false notions they are bound to perish.
Those who slight the teachings of the Gita, and do not follow them,
Sarva dnyan vimudhatmas – they are blind to all the wisdom; they are lost and senseless. To act without understanding will be to act like animals-unrestrained.
Right Action ( Duty)
Even if the people of Knowledge are impulsive – and act instinctively,
Nigrah kim karishyati– Indriya- daman – repression of ascetics is Useseless.33
Raga dveshau vyavasthita. –The liking for sensual pleasures, or wrath, and hatred are inborn. They are the enemies of man. Do not get swayed by them. 34
The one who understands and then acts (making use of his buddhi), he will never be the victim of impulsive behavior. Impulses, instincts if overpower us, the life becomes aimless and devoid of intelligence. It will be like animals. We must act with sense of duty alone.
Shreyan svadharmo vigunah- To go by our own law, even if it is imperfect, paradharmat svanusthitat – is always better than carrying out another’s.
Svadharme nidhanm shreya Death is better if it comes while we are doing our own duty.Para dharma bhayavah- To follow another’s law is perilous. 35
Mayi sarvani karmani Sannyasya adhyatma chetasa
Nirasir nirmamo bhutva yudhyasva vigatjvrah …… 30
Yudhyasya Vigatjvarah–Cast away the klaibyam - unmanliness and weak heartedness- the gifts of dualistic Faiths of past that had made - brave warriors like Arjuna to shun from war and run after salvation.
Sannyasya adhyatmachetasa : they were possessed by the thought of Sannyas – Renunciation of work and world in the name of Adhyatma – spiritualism.
Nirasir nirmamo bhutva : Be free from desire and egoism, Fight – do your duty. The Gita asks every one to do the duty but without desire and attachment of imageries of soul and Karma bandhas - bonds of work- or lust of heaven or hell.
Ye me matam nityam : Those who act according to the preaching of the Gita, anutishthanti manavah :and behave like human beings (use Buddhi and act);
Shradhavanto anasuyanto: with firm faith in the Lighted path of Knowledge,
Muchyante te api karmabhi: they only will be freed from the bonds of work. 31
(The Gita rejects the paths of renunciation of the Sankhyas and also Ritualism and yadnyas- karmakandas of the Vedics). Liberation can be possible only by doing work – our duty with Right understanding - intelligence. If they do not get freed from false notions they are bound to perish.
Those who slight the teachings of the Gita, and do not follow them,
Sarva dnyan vimudhatmas – they are blind to all the wisdom; they are lost and senseless. To act without understanding will be to act like animals-unrestrained.
Right Action ( Duty)
Even if the people of Knowledge are impulsive – and act instinctively,
Nigrah kim karishyati– Indriya- daman – repression of ascetics is Useseless.33
Raga dveshau vyavasthita. –The liking for sensual pleasures, or wrath, and hatred are inborn. They are the enemies of man. Do not get swayed by them. 34
The one who understands and then acts (making use of his buddhi), he will never be the victim of impulsive behavior. Impulses, instincts if overpower us, the life becomes aimless and devoid of intelligence. It will be like animals. We must act with sense of duty alone.
Shreyan svadharmo vigunah- To go by our own law, even if it is imperfect, paradharmat svanusthitat – is always better than carrying out another’s.
Svadharme nidhanm shreya Death is better if it comes while we are doing our own duty.Para dharma bhayavah- To follow another’s law is perilous. 35
To fight the battle rather than to think of renunciation for a warrior was to play his part manfully. Chaturvanya was not on the basis of birth and heredity. It was initiated by initiators on the basis of quality.
Enemies of man
( Asakti- desire and passion, ego, wrath and hatred).
Why a man is driven to commit Sin, by force, even against his will? ..36
Kama esa krodha esa rajo guna samudbhavah- To crave for kama- passion, and desire and also the wrath are born of Nature ( prakiti )……37.
Passion envelopes the wisdom. The fire of insatiable desire is the foe of wise38, 39.
Indriya manor buddhi asya adhisthanam uchyate–Senses, mind & intelligence dwell in the body. If these veil the wisdom, man gets deluded. ……………..40
Samyyam- Restraint
Tasmat tvam indriyany adau niyamya – Therefore one must learn to control the senses from the beginning. By doing this, you can slay the sinful destroyer of wisdom. 41.
Senses are great. Intelligence is greater than mind, and greater than intelligence is your Self .. ………42
Your consciousness-(ability to think and act in a right way) is least when you go by senses- instincts. (Least you are free). But if the mind can control the senses, you are more Free. When your buddhi starts controlling the mind, still you are more free. And when you are enlightened, inner Self starts working, highest freedom it will be. “Higher we rise, the freer we are”.
Evam buddhe param budhva : Know him (the Self) who is beyond intelligence.
Samstabhya atmanam atmana: Be steady in yourself of your own,
Jahi shatrum mahabaho: winning over the greatest enemy of yours in the form
Kamrupam durasadam : of desire and passion which is very hard to get at.43
We have to know our selves. (Never depend on what others say).
The Essence of the whole of the Gita is hidden in this one verse. Here is the message to be independent. Do not take the guidance of and depend totally on any other external power. (God or soul or fate). Smite the enemies - wrath, hatred, ego, kam – passion, not by tyranny over the body but by intelligence, by mind. Depend on the inner Light alone, refusing the concept of three modes - trigunas of the Vedics or the karmabandhas of the Sankhyas.
Performance of our work without selfish attachments but not without the vision of securing world solidarity and well-fare should be your only religion. The so called learned custodians (literate ignorant) should stop to misguide and mislead the illiterate masses.
Karma jayo hy akarmanah; Action is far better than inaction.
Enemies of man
( Asakti- desire and passion, ego, wrath and hatred).
Why a man is driven to commit Sin, by force, even against his will? ..36
Kama esa krodha esa rajo guna samudbhavah- To crave for kama- passion, and desire and also the wrath are born of Nature ( prakiti )……37.
Passion envelopes the wisdom. The fire of insatiable desire is the foe of wise38, 39.
Indriya manor buddhi asya adhisthanam uchyate–Senses, mind & intelligence dwell in the body. If these veil the wisdom, man gets deluded. ……………..40
Samyyam- Restraint
Tasmat tvam indriyany adau niyamya – Therefore one must learn to control the senses from the beginning. By doing this, you can slay the sinful destroyer of wisdom. 41.
Senses are great. Intelligence is greater than mind, and greater than intelligence is your Self .. ………42
Your consciousness-(ability to think and act in a right way) is least when you go by senses- instincts. (Least you are free). But if the mind can control the senses, you are more Free. When your buddhi starts controlling the mind, still you are more free. And when you are enlightened, inner Self starts working, highest freedom it will be. “Higher we rise, the freer we are”.
Evam buddhe param budhva : Know him (the Self) who is beyond intelligence.
Samstabhya atmanam atmana: Be steady in yourself of your own,
Jahi shatrum mahabaho: winning over the greatest enemy of yours in the form
Kamrupam durasadam : of desire and passion which is very hard to get at.43
We have to know our selves. (Never depend on what others say).
The Essence of the whole of the Gita is hidden in this one verse. Here is the message to be independent. Do not take the guidance of and depend totally on any other external power. (God or soul or fate). Smite the enemies - wrath, hatred, ego, kam – passion, not by tyranny over the body but by intelligence, by mind. Depend on the inner Light alone, refusing the concept of three modes - trigunas of the Vedics or the karmabandhas of the Sankhyas.
Performance of our work without selfish attachments but not without the vision of securing world solidarity and well-fare should be your only religion. The so called learned custodians (literate ignorant) should stop to misguide and mislead the illiterate masses.
Karma jayo hy akarmanah; Action is far better than inaction.
In this chapter the Gita expounds the need to abandon the path of renunciation as well as that of Desire of rituals and yadnyas; and follow the path of performance of work - karma- duty (Karma-Yoga alone) with no desire for rewards. Karma is to work with hands and feet- organs of work with right understanding (wisdom).
To the Gita, Karma is to work with intelligence. Karma is perverted by the commentators as yadnyas, rites and rituals (the karma kandas). Yadnya must be performed, they say. What else it can be than Ego and Buddhi-bheda, to mislead and misguide the multitudes again and again, to meet their selfish ends and preserve ego at the cost of fraud cheat lie? The Gita often and on proclaims to abandon the Vedic ritualistic yadnyas, and also the Sankhya concept of Karma bandhas,” karma bandha prahasyasi”, we must not forget.
Eyes are given to see. Ears are to hear, nose is to smell. The skin is to know the touch, heat and pain. They are the doors to know or understand (to attain knowledge and wisdom) and act. They provide protective phenomena. If we sit on a hot pan, and sense of pain is lost what will happen? Will it be possible to know or talk of soul and God? To suppress the senses by torture over the body in the name of austerity is ignorance.
Be independent in real sense (by using your own buddhi); ask guidance from your own Self - that is your inner Light and from no other external power or hearsay. Work for solidarity, Welfare of the world with the realization that agency is neither the God nor the three gunas. It is your Self alone.
Eyes are given to see. Ears are to hear, nose is to smell. The skin is to know the touch, heat and pain. They are the doors to know or understand (to attain knowledge and wisdom) and act. They provide protective phenomena. If we sit on a hot pan, and sense of pain is lost what will happen? Will it be possible to know or talk of soul and God? To suppress the senses by torture over the body in the name of austerity is ignorance.
Be independent in real sense (by using your own buddhi); ask guidance from your own Self - that is your inner Light and from no other external power or hearsay. Work for solidarity, Welfare of the world with the realization that agency is neither the God nor the three gunas. It is your Self alone.
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